Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-23
A BEAUTIFUL CRAFT.
FIRST STEEL VESSEL : o Pillow THE
WATERS OF LAKE C1AMPLAlN.
The New steamer Chateaugay, Now Being
Built at Shelburn Harbor-Her Cost
to be About %115,O00 and her
speed 90 Miles au Hour.

The Champlain Transportation COM
pany with their accustomed energy are
rapidly pushing work on their fine new
iron steamer, Chateaugay, now in process
of construction at Shelburn harbor and it
is expected that she will be ready to
launch in about four weeks. The cree
ton of the frames was completed Satur-
day the sheathing is mostly bolted in place,
and the work of rivetng is rapidly pro
crossing, The steamer will be the finest
craft ever constructed on Lake Champlain
and in some respects among the finest on
American waters Standing at her bow
and looking along the bottom of her keel,
her lines appear as fine and handsome as
those of carefully designed yacht and it
requires no practiced eye to see that she
Will be clipper. She is built on practi
cally the same model as the Horizon.
Her length is 200 feet, her beam 30
feet, and depth of hold 10 feet six inches.
Not particle of wood Will enter into her
structure below the flooring of her main
deck, and although the weight of the
steel and iron used is 322 eco pounds she
will be much lighter and consequently
draw less water than If constructed of
wood. The hull was constructed by the
Harlan Il HollingsWorth Co. of Whining
ton, Del. She has 9S frames which are
inches each way and u of an inch thick,
and which are feet apart from centre 20
centre. Her sides are composed of plates
of the finest Otis steel, cardboard strakes,
81 of an inch thick for 100 feet, and 5-l6 of
an inch thick at the ends. The plates are put
together more finely than the incest boiler
work and some idea of the labor involved
can be obtained from the fact that 4l,OOO
rivetS remained to be put i'll place after
the arrival of the plates at the harbOr and
all the parts possible had been riveted at
the works of the manufacturers i'll Will
mngton, where an equal number of riVets
We're used. Eight FORCES are in full blast
inside the hull and the rivetlng is
done by 40 employees from Winning
ton in charge of the veteran Capt.
Kelly, while % of the Transportation
company's hands are engaged on other
parts of the work. The din arising from
the hammering by the rlveters is some
thing terrific and visitors are almost deaf
ened tor the time being. The riveters are
divided into gangs and the labor moves
on with the regularity of clock-work. Ii
she is launched at tn appointed time the
work of putting together her frame work
and hull will have required just six
weeks.
What impresses the visitor as much as
anything else is the evident strength OF
every part of the craft. Every portion Is
built of the best quality of material, the
plating Of steel and the inside work such
as bull,heads, cross floors, etc, OF
for ship building purposes. The en-
CINE will be vertical beam, jet con
densing, with cylinder Al inches in di-
ameter and Il stroke of 10 feet. Her walk
ing beam is 20 feet long and eight
wide. The diameter of the shaft is 1872
inches There will be two return tubular
boilers, each being eight feet front and
% feet in length. The two furnaces are
seven feet deep. The direct tlues are
six in number and the return tubes Sc.
Each boiler will have a steam chimney
nine feet in height and both will feed into
one stack. The boilers are made of the
best material. The inside Of the furnaces,
the hue and the heads are made
of Otis fire bcX steel plate and all tianges
are of the best Otis flauge steel, The
remainder of the boiler is OF shell
iron. The boiler is to be able 10 with
stand hydrostatic pressure OF 80 POUNDS
to the square inch. The steamer Will also
be provided with donkey boiler three
fec in diameter, seven feet and three
inches high. containing ~ tubes two
inches in diameter and four feet long, and
able to withstand pressure of l2O pouncs
per square iuch. Her boilers as well As
all OF her machinery We're built by
the we'll known w. & n. Fletcher com
pany of New York.
She is TO have the latest style of feather
ing paddle wheels % feet in diameter.
The buckets which are eight and 4 hall
feet long and nearly three wide, will
work automatically, thus doing away
with the carrying OF several tons of water
to the top of the whee-house as is done
by the old style of wheel. The wheels
VIII be about onehalf the size of the Old
kind, and this will lower the shaft to
within nearly six inches of the deck, so
that passengers can step over it readily.
Another advantage will be the decrease
OF t4t IIeih olhg my eilien 1t UIu'I"
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